Job creation and losses

Tube maintenance staff will go on two three-day strikes this September, after unwelcome proposals for redundancies and outsourcing look set...

Thousands of job cuts are expected in the UK’s financial sector as a result of the volatile equity and credit...

Up to 1,800 jobs are under threat at high street entertainment retailer ChoicesUK, after a decision to go into administration....

According to the chief executive of the British Olympic Association, Simon Clegg, the Great Britain team should be aiming for...

Hundreds of HR jobs are under threat at British Gas after its owners announced plans to slash another 800 back-office...

Dutch chemicals group Akzo Nobel has agreed an £8bn takeover of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), the maker of Dulux paint....

HMV has announced it will buy seven Fopp stores, saving some 70 jobs, following the news that Fopp went into...

Lloyds TSB is to offshore a further 210 UK jobs to India from October, it confirmed yesterday.
The bank has...

Royal & Sun Alliance (R&SA) is to axe 700 jobs, including up to 500 posts in the UK, in a...

Finance firm C&G, formerly Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society, is to close 31 of its 195 branches in November, with...

HR jobs at Sainsbury’s are under threat following a radical shake-up of its HR function affecting up to 1,800 employees.The...

Conciliation service Acas is spending almost £2m on employees who chose to leave the organisation in the past year, despite...

UK manufacturing jobs declined at their lowest rate for two years in the past quarter, despite a fall in demand...

HR news including: Home information packs – first there were too few energy assessors and now there are too many...

The UK tops a European list for the number of job losses during the second quarter of 2007.A quarterly report...